The subject of the following bachelor thesis was to explain and analyse the term self-actualisation in context of the tragedy Faust. Ein Gedicht. by Nikolaus Lenau. The thesis consists of seven chapters in total and starts with the theoretical section, where the main problems and statements were introduced. The study of human needs introduced by an American psychologist Abraham Maslow plays an important role in this section as it served as a base for most the statements in that section and later on in the analysis itself. After the theoretical section comes the analysis of the character Faust from Lenau’s tragedy and at the same certain comparisons were made to the Goethe’s tragedy containing the character of the same name. At the end of the analysis the most important ideas and statements were summarized into the next chapter with the intention to draw a conclusion. As a matter of fact, the intention of the bachelor thesis was to try to philologically analyse a certain character, whereas the psychological statements of Maslow’s study served as a starting point. The tragedy itself depicts the life, destiny, successes and failures of Faust. The tragedy itself is known to the public for some time because it is in fact a newer version of Goethe’s tragedy. Lenau’s as well as Goethe’s tragedy ask some important questions about identity and the personality of the human being overall and serve as inexhaustible sources of various analysis. They are thus considered to be masterpieces of literature written in German language.